## A Message to Ethiopia 

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Alas, O land of whirring wings Which lies beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, 

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Which sends envoys by the sea, Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, To a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation Whose land the rivers divide. 

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All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth, As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see _it_, And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear _it_. 

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For thus Yahweh has told me, "I will look from My dwelling place quietly Like dazzling heat in the sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." 

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For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove _and_ cut away the spreading branches. 

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They will be left together for mountain birds of prey, And for the beasts of the earth; And the birds of prey will spend the summer _feeding_ on them, And all the beasts of the earth will spend harvest time on them. 

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At that time a gift of homage will be brought to Yahweh of hosts From a people tall and smooth, Even from a people feared far and wide, A powerful and oppressive nation, Whose land the rivers divide-- To the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, _even_ Mount Zion.